CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythonbeautifulsoup
user8588795
user8588795

Reputation: 321

Scraping dynamic elements

Below is my code and it works , But issue it sometime it does not work ? I can say intermmeidate issue and probably because of dynamic elements in in page? what is solution for dynamic elements?

def collect_bottom_url(product_string):
    """
    collect_bottom_url:
    This function will accept product name as a argument.
    create a url of product and then collect all the urls given in bottom of page for the product.

    :return: list_of_urls
    """

    url = 'https://www.amazon.in/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=' + product_string
    # download the main webpage of product
    webpage = requests.get(url)

    # Store the main URL of Product in a list
    list_of_urls = list()
    list_of_urls.append(url)

    # Create a web page of downloaded page using lxml parser
    my_soup = BeautifulSoup(webpage.text, "lxml")

    # find_all class = pagnLink in web page
    urls_at_bottom = my_soup.find_all(class_='pagnLink')

    empty_list = list()
    for b_url in urls_at_bottom:
        empty_list.append(b_url.find('a')['href'])

    for item in empty_list:
        item = "https://www.amazon.in/" + item
        list_of_urls.append(item)
    print(list_of_urls)


collect_bottom_url('book')

Here is output 1 which is fine :

['https://www.amazon.in/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=book', 'https://www.amazon.in//book/s?ie=UTF8&page=2&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Abook', 'https://www.amazon.in//book/s?ie=UTF8&page=3&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Abook']

Here is output 2 which is incorrect :

['https://www.amazon.in/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=book']

Upvotes: 2

Views: 78

Answers (1)

ewwink
ewwink

Reputation: 19164

its not dynamic but it ask captcha because you use default user-agent, change it.

headers= {"User-Agent" : 'Mozilla/5.0.............'}
def collect_bottom_url(product_string):
    .....
    webpage = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

for dynamic page use Selenium.

Upvotes: 3

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